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...soldier depends too much on his material power and is deficient in spiritual strength. The industrial might of the U.S. must eventually bow to the spirit of Bushido...
...Hollywood when the Mary Astor divorce story broke, Florabel got a call from the Daily News to cover it. She promptly bought the Astor diary for $500, made the trial the sizzling success of the '30s. Her other top stories were the Pantages, Clara Bow, the Errol Flynn and Chaplin trials. On the Chaplin story Florabel went to see Joan Berry at the Beverly Hills police station, advised her to retain Attorney Jack Irwin, thereby sewed up the best source. Other reporters rewrote her, or didn't write...
That was in mid-March 1942. The MacArthur who flew into Australia then was the picture of what had happened to the U.S. in the Pacific. He had been West Point's First Captain, and one of its greatest students. He had been the Rain bow Division's commander in World War I, later the Army's youngest Chief of Staff, and always the professional soldier's notion of what a professional soldier should look like. Now he was rumpled and untidy and probably for the first time in his life he looked...
Frank ("The Voice") Sinatra, patent-leather-lunged idol, opened a three-week engagement at Manhattan's mammoth Paramount Theater, got the usual screaming reception from 30,000 bow-tied, bobby-soxed fans, who caused such a commotion that the Police Department responded with 421 policemen, 20 policewomen, 20 patrol cars, two trucks. The excitement had scarcely died down two days later, when an 18-year-old boy stood up in the theater, threw an egg that smacke'd Sinatra squarely between the eyes. The egger, one Alexander Ivanovich Dorogokupetz, was mobbed by Sinatra's fans but rescued...
...Ward group had put in their bid for the Stadium, would consider Randalls Island, threatened to play pro football in the Plaza Hotel ballroom if all else failed. The Meehan faction, boasting a family tie-in with the Ruppert heirs, professed to have the inside track, would bow out quietly if their bid for the Stadium failed. The Payne group was just hoping...